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Otolaryngologist Robert Ossoff, D73, M75, standing in front of 2 gold records

The Music Man

For over three decades, the biggest country stars—Johnny Cash, Larry Gatlin, Wynonna Judd, and Mandy Moore—have trusted one team with their most previous instruments: otolaryngologist Robert Ossoff, D73, M75, and the Vanderbilt Voice Center.
Tufts PA student Elizabeth Huebner at the entrance to Kopanong Hospital

PAs Go Global

Tufts Physician Assistant students are getting a new worldview, thanks to a clinical rotation in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand.
Robin Cotter and Katelyn Foley celebrate after finding out they both got into their first-choice residency programs on Match Day at Tufts School of Medicine on March 15, 2019.

A Match to Celebrate

On March 15th, Tufts 4th-year medical students gathered with friends, family, and faculty in the Medical Education Building to celebrate Match Day and learn where their residency program matches will take them
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Snapchat Depression

Why has the rate of teenage depression and anxiety doubled in a generation? A School of Medicine psychiatry professor says the answer is in our pockets.
Illustration of a doctor and patient talking

Getting in Tune

Dr. Andrea Gordon, associate professor of family medicine, explains why doctor-patient relationships, like jazz, require a healthy dose of improvisation.
Boys filling water containers amid squalor in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Stopping Cholera in Its Tracks

Tufts researchers are testing bacteriophages—viruses that kill the cholera bacteria—as a way to halt the spread of the deadly disease.
Two dads playing with toddler.

Gay Dads and Stigmas

A new study finds that two-father families still face discrimination, especially in states and settings that offer fewer legal and social protections.